Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
13377
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/01/1993
Date of Amendment
21/01/1993
Name of Property
Paget Rooms
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Penarth
Town
Locality
Easting
318338
Northing
171407
Street Side
Location
Immediately to R of Stanwell Road Baptist Church Sunday School.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built on land donated by Earl of Plymouth in 1906. Architect John Coates Carter of Penarth.
Exterior
Entrance front faces roughly SW. Roughcast render (painted) over brown glazed brick plinth. Upper storey has row of seven small pane casement windows with small round window to L. Parapet above.
Central main entrance consists of low round arch flanked by Ionic columns with exaggerated capitals. Paired glazed wooden doors with multi-paned overlight. Above arch, pair of small-pane casement windows flanked by aedicules enclosing cartouches. Entrance arch flanked by two taller arches (with keystones and raised voussoir-like decoration) enclosing at first floor level semi-circular small pane windows, and at ground floor level, to each side, shopfronts consisting of door with oval window, and two-light corbelled polygonal shop window; multi-pane overlights. Beyond shopfronts to L, small single light loop window, and to R, small two light window. Sides rendered with small-pane glazing to service/dressing rooms.
Interior
Vestibule with panelled side walls with oval mirrors leads to enrtance hall (modernised); to R stairs to balcony. Auditorium with broad coved ceiling, two central ventilators with moulded architraves; each side has longitudinal ceiling glazing of four lights with moulded architraves.
Sides each with four deep tall round-arched bays; modern seating in recesses below theatre boxes with bulbous balcony fronts (boxes interconnect to rear). Balcony to SW end (largely modernised); kitchen accommodation overlooking Victoria Road. Above kitchen, caretaker's flat. Stage (modernised) to NE end of auditorium; behind stage dressing/service rooms, ledged boarded doors with long strap hinges, staircase to R has balusters with pierced heart-shaped decoration.
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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